Partick Castle

[1] Writing in the early eighteenth century, Hamilton of Wishaw described the building: "...where Kelvin falls into Clyde, is the house of Pertique, a well-built and convenient house, well planted with barren timber and large gardens, which are enclosed with stone walls, and which formerly belonged to George Hutcheson in Glasgow, but now to John Crawford of Myltoun.

[4] Napier also provides an anecdotal description of the building in its later days when it was a tenanted property: The account of the house given to me by a person who had often been in it when it was inhabited, was, that the under flat was partially sunk & vaulted.

[5] A poem published locally (in the Glasgow Magazine or the Bee) in the nineteenth century describes it thus: Lo, Partick Castle, drear and lone, Stands like a silent looker-on, Where Clyde and Kelvin meet; The long rank grass waves o’er its walls; No sound is heard within its halls, Save noise of distant waterfalls, Where children lave their feet.

[11] At the marriage of Sir George Elphinstone of Blythswood to Agnes Boyd in 1600, James VI promised the couple a bigger house.

Sir George was given the New Park of Partick in order to manage the woodland, introduce deer, and build an 'ample' house for himself and for the king to resort to after hunting.

According to the Cistercian monk and hagiographer of St Kentigern, Jocelin of Furness, King Rhydderch had a residence in 'Pertnech' (Partick).